/late/ - Late Nights

>>3874
>>3877
related:
https://alogs.space/robowaifu/res/43642.html#44095

@OP
I was just wondering if you are using Icecast for your station? We're trying to figure out how to see the number of current listeners for streams, and I thought you might know how to find out. Cheers.

I'd kind of like the radio back too.

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>>3817
That's good, Anon! I hope it's a Bible-believing Christian church. Regardless, I'm glad to see you getting around others once a week. Cheers.  :)

>>2067
and how do you plan getting revenge and what did they DO to you??

>>3799
do you guys stream animes somewhere?

>>2791
definitely Indian

>>2904
Based.

>>3954
will die soon one way or another

It feels like something isn't right, or missing. We put ours down (kidney failure, pushed all the organs to the front) and the noisy animal that was always around suddenly isn't. 
Coworker died this week too, strange not having that interaction anymore either. 
Life's weird., not what I thought it was when I was in college or whatever.

>>3954
Sorry to hear about your doggo, Anon.
>>3955
That happened to me at my last job, it's a really strange feeling. We'd been working close for a few years by that point, and just as I go on vacation, he needs a few sick days. Doesn't sound serious, he says he'll see me later. Never comes back.

>>3955
>>3956
I'll miss the silly doggy.
The first time I had a coworker die was on one of my summer jobs durring college.  I had only been there a week or so and he was supposed to be training me. He had a heart attack and died after he got home one evening. I think he was in his early 40s. It's funny, I can't remember his name.

>>3953
Do you say that every time you see an open mouth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mng2fgPH4dg

Just ask yourself what kind of wonders this sort of contemplation as an introspective adult can give you? Does the irreversible erosion of that childlike perception from your developmental years through accumulated knowledge ultimately diminish or enrich your ability to be happy? As you grow older, you begin to develop a more nuanced grasp of what 'happiness' even is, for better or worse.

It didn't for me. My situation started getting better during my senior year of high school. I do feel hopeless about my life situation and the state of the world, but there are times I feel genuine happiness despite being a lot more jaded than I was when I was younger.

>Does happiness end with your teen years?
Nope, just puberty and high school.

I always pitied miserable people, when I was in my 20s.  Whenever I saw a movie about drug addicts, or villains whose sadness, nihilism or anger created the conflict of the story, I thought about how not to be like that, because I found it pathetic: these dumb bastards all waste their lives because they can't conceive of just moving on from their tragic backstories.

Maybe the common denominator to these characters is that they drag the past with them like a ball and chain. 
 But then, Batman had a tragic backstory, and you have to wonder why he became a hero instead of a villain.

I think the answer to that comes down largely to aesthetic sense, the ability to care about more than his own needs, and optimism about people and the future.  It's these qualities, more so than a willingness to wear your undies over your pants and jump off buildings, which defines "heroism."

Modern life requires a little heroism.

>>3958 (OP) 
I'm in my 40s and yeah. You'll never feel the same lightness again and if you pretend that you eventually it'll be just sad.

My best memories are also from the 90s/early 00s and the world was less of a fuck then now anyways (or rather, it was the same fuck considering Epstein et al. we just didn't know about it I suppose).

Also enjoy getting older and random health problems out of nowhere.

>>3858
Everything by niketa is wonderful! Thanks for the suggestion!

>>3859
you're welcome, but who's niketa? the game is by Ferry (nopanamaman), right?

been thinking on what keeps me coming back to skyrim rather than oblivion or morrowind, and i think its to do with the compulsion to explore and how you are rewarded for exploring

in morrowind, i never feel like exploring, because there is nothing worth my time in 99% of locations, maybe a dozen drakes total and if you're lucky an ebony weapon that you can sell for a tenth its value, i feel the same about oblivion, there is simply nothing worth my time and the harsh level scaling disencourages exploration due to the sponginess of enemies at higher levels making clearing any dungeon a gigantic time sink

in skyrim, i always feel like exploring, picking a direction and walking, and taking a detour to run a dungeon, i always find something worth my time, a word of a shout, an enchanted item, or simply an item worth a lot of gold such as a staff
skyrim's soundtrack does a lot of heavy lifting to make walking the world feel good, every track is tailored to specific weather and biome, each a unique atmosphere that cant be heard elsewhere, i particually like the trail between dawnstar and windhelm and the forests north-west of falkreath, having the most beautiful music, i feel positive emotions i cannot identify while listening to them

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Stellaris game is going pretty well, elected custodian in 2286 and all but two normal empires are not either my subject or a part of my federation, huge EC deficit, -9k per month or three months with my current savings, as i'm ~4000 over naval cap increasing ship up keep by over 240%, building dyson spheres, HRAE-MCs and anchorages to try and stay afloat while also building up to concquer the Oned'Qarak Entertainment Complex for trying to hijack Prime Node Axiom to force it to grind resources and items for RMT, and to take their Matrioshka Brain for myself, mostly the second thing really and to a lesser extent to obtain dark matter technology to try and prepare for potential Sirenalia who might be spawning in the next 1-25 years

Played a couple hours of Monster Rancher 4 yesterday.  Braindead translation, bullshit mechanics.  Used a cheat to unlock the entire disc book.  Can't say I'm interested in continuing, since other than the management it's like a fighting game where your character refuses to respond most of the time.  Might watch the show, though.


FF7 apparently has a legendarily bad translation, so I've been poking at the original, and enjoying that.  In the flashback at the water tower, Cloud bloviates to Tifa about how he's going to be a great hero.  She calls his bluff and tells him to come to her rescue.  Cloud doesn't believe his own bullshit, so he's flabbergasted.

It reminds me of how Eric Cartman would tell people to suck his balls, then didn't know what to say when that one teacher says "present them."

This is not how I remember it from when I played it 25 years ago, to say the least.

This, incidentally, is the fun part of playing a Japanese game in the original language: it's the closest you can ever get to "playing it for the first time, again."

>>3837
Same.  Though I haven't broken it; I just got it running, created a stealth catman who can't seem to sneak worth a shit, and can't really fight, either.  I've been blundering around in Vivec, not really sure what to do with myself.

>>3824
kek
>>3840
but that's an interesting question. i wonder if it gets over-represented because the scene with the lights is so... meme-able? like it serves as an easily adaptable punchline, so people who haven't seen the entire series or even watched that episode can riff off of it and amplify it's visibility such that it might seem more popular of an episode than it actually was?

>>3841
Yeah that makes sense. And also goes for Darmok and Jallad at Tanagra, though that is at least a good episode.

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I've been going through the TOS movies and haven't been too impressed so far, but Star Trek IV was pretty fun outside of the preachy environmental message. The time travel thing had already been done repeatedly on the original show, but it was still fun to see the crew of the Enterprise walking around '80s San Francisco and trying to blend in.

I'm probably going to rewatch some TOS episodes tomorrow. I'm kind of considering getting the cartoon series on Blu-ray too. The movies are making me realize just how much of a grognard I am when it comes to Star Trek.

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>>1467 (me)
I rewatched TNG since that post.

First and foremost, you can really see in the HD version how thin the costumes are, especially in the first two seasons, but also in season 4 where the enterprise encounter's Tasha Yar's ridiculously hot sister.  The camera really eats her ass up in one scene.

I also enjoyed the accidental '90s racism, like how the Ferengi are rather negroidic to begin with, and only convert to judaism later.

Moral quandaries interested me little, except to laugh at them when they were stupid or insane.  Picard insists on destroying the ship— again, because some kind of "artificial life" has emerged, and we have to pretend that it can't be mass-produced.


The 7th season is where everything that had been good about Trek dies in realtime.  Ro and Wesley abandon Starfleet for what I've come to refer to as "magical terrorism."

It's like in Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty, or Office Space, where having a dependable income is, like, squaresville, maaaaan so the moral of the story becomes "you should quit your job and... I dunno, I'm sure something better will come up."

I don't know if it's really hippie boomer bullshit or something more nefarious.  Either way, it was the most interesting detail of various episodes of that season.

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>>3841
Picard's utter pissedness and inflexibility are admirable and make for a compelling episode.

>In spite of all you've done to me, I find you a pitiable man.
Who can't relate?

"There are four lights" is shorthand for the entire exchange.  It's like saying "you have the whip hand over me now, and you might even kill me, but I will always hold you in contempt."

Hell, it's like saying I am immune to your bullshit propaganda too.

usually go for bottom shelf cask port, cheap as fuck and decent abv, though i've developed a taste for vanilla vodka recently, ~1/3 simple syrup & ~2/3 vanilla vodka with a couple ice cubes is what i'm drinking right now

Usually go for monster with vodka or jagermeister, vodka because I don't care much for the taste of alcohol and Jager because it does taste nice

absinthe

I drink a wide variety of things, but I like whiskey the most.  I do not ever mix anything with it with the exception of occasionally making rye Manhattans or chill it. I particularly enjoy Islay single malts, and I consistently keep either Lagavulin 16 or the standard Laphroaig on hand. When I want something less assertively flavored for drinking with meals, I switch things up. I generally like to serve Nikka Coffee Grain Whiskey or Whistlepig Pigyback Rye depending on the dish. I also like try new whiskeys occasionally, and I was last impressed by 12 year old cask strength Redbreast. 
To be fair, I drink more beer than anything else, but that's mostly just something I have with lunch or dinner, especially if I'm not at home. I like anything other than the cheap piss water lagers, but IPAs, witbiers/weissbiers, and cream ales are what I generally gravitate toward.  I also really like Arrogant Bastard Ale and Belgian quads, but those are not realy something I would generally have with food and are more of an occasional treat.

>>3936
*Nikka Coffey Grain

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>>3224
What if it just wanted to have some fun?

>>2410
Sounds like foxes making love

>>3559
I'm quite spooked.